I went culling porcupines one night in the Free State of South Africa. The varmints were causing huge damage to their crops by chewing on their roots. It was clover or some such thing.
They had shot dozens and dozens of the nocturnal beasts but the end was not yet in sight.
I had passed up a $125 U.S. porcupine years earlier in Zimbabwe and thought that this might be a good experience without costing me much or any money.
The African porcupine has enormously long quills.
My weapon of choice was a 375 Ruger that I was hoping to trade off on a leopard hunt for my lady. She had a 270 but only a box of shells as she does not depend so much on fire power as I do ..
So the landowner drove us around searching for porcupines and whenever one was spotted the beast would hare it off to the long grass as I tried to mow them down ... actually they can really boogie when some lout is slinging lead ..
However I did have one shell go 'poof!'... it was ejected .. I checked to make sure that the bullet was not stuck in the barrel and continued on with the hunt ... I did get four in total with one making its escape ..
The next day a PH from Mozambique went over to the vehicle and came back laughing and threatening to show the brass on You Tube.
I had chambered and fired a 270 shell in my 375 Ruger rifle .. The brass was swollen and split according to the size of the chamber ..
What an idiot ..